Continuing the catching up bit of the early Billboard number one hits of the Big Band era, we come to the first instance of an artist taking the top spot with three consecutive recordings, each replacing the other. Glenn Miller’s In The Mood was replaced by Glenn Miller’s Tuxedo Junction, which was replaced by Glenn Miller’s The Woodpecker Song.
Jimmy Dorsey would later replicate this feat, then Glenn Miller would do it again. Nobody would accomplish it again until the Beatles came along.
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The chart information is from Billboard magazine, as compiled by Record Research. Chart data is copyright 1939-1954, BPI Communications.
